How To Solve The Lack Of Audio-in ?

General Discussion
1

I’m contemplating of using a sound card/interface as a mixer.
Most interfaces (if not all) don’t use built-in effects e.g. EQ .
In Cubase you can filter the input through a VST effect but since there is no audio-input in renoise how can one solve it as things are now ?

I would also like to use as few host programs as possible.
So I hope there is way to solve it without running e.g. Cubase and Renoise at the same time.

2

Got some answers from another forum.
Programs like Spinaudio’s Virtual Mixing Console works the way I was asking for.
Problem is (of course) that it use ASIO so I need to run Renoise in Directsound for it to work.

3

Forget that for a moment.
It solves half the problem, there is no record function.

4

i’d try to use Live!/Audigy/Audigy2 with KX drivers which allow to edit DSP microcode where you could put real-time fx’s right on hardware input.

5

I’m not a fan of Creative cards (blew the digital inputs on my DD5.1 receiver).

I guess I’ll wait for the rewire support, audio-in capability or mixer/VST host with multitrack record functions.

6

here they say that you could use EnergyXT VST plugin.

Give it a look and see if it fits your needs.